This is my January full Moon shot, an image of the famous nebula designed to emphasize the inner core detail and color. The challenge with this object is to apply a DDP curve in such a way as to not make the extremely bright core too flat looking, and rob it of its fine internal dark nebula details. A few special processing tricks were used to achieve this appearance. M43 can be surrounding the solitary bright star to the lower right. Instrument: 12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian Platform: Astrophysics 1200 QMD CCD Camera: SBIG ST8i NABG Guider: SBIG ST4 Exposure: RGB = 5:5:10 RGB Combine Ratio: 1: .8: 1.2 Filters: RGB Tricolor Location: Payson, Arizona Elevation: 5150 ft. Sky: Seeing FWHM = 3.5 arcsec , Transparency 8/10 Outside Temperature: 2 C CCD Temperature: -20 C Processing Tools: Maxim DL, RG Sigma, Photoshop, AIP4WIN, RW Debloomer.
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